From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@stny.rr.com>
Cc: duwe@informatik.uni-erlangen.de,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mc146818rtc.h for user land programs (2.4.10)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:33:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BB2036D.A72C1C25@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0109261152100.5923-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> The following patch is for linux-2.4.10
> This is needed for user land programs to use the
> mc146818rtc.h header.
>
> --- include/linux/mc146818rtc.h.orig Wed Sep 26 23:43:00 2001
> +++ include/linux/mc146818rtc.h Wed Sep 26 23:43:25 2001
> @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@
> #include <linux/spinlock.h> /* spinlock_t */
> #include <asm/mc146818rtc.h> /* register access macros */
>
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> extern spinlock_t rtc_lock; /* serialize CMOS RAM access */
> +#endif
I can see arguing with Alan about the inclusion of linux-kernel headers
in some cases, but I don't see anything in this file that looks like a
user-space program could use. Which part of this file do the user
space programs need?
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-26 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-26 16:19 [PATCH] mc146818rtc.h for user land programs (2.4.10) Steven Rostedt
2001-09-26 16:26 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-26 16:33 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2001-09-26 17:40 ` Tim Hockin
2001-09-26 18:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2001-09-27 11:48 ` Torsten Duwe
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